Infrastructure

The shift in the use of natural gas in Pennsylvania from residential and industrial consumption to electric power generation has been dramatic…

A group of institutional investors worth a combined $1.5 trillion has thrown its support behind an Obama administration plan for the oil and natural gas industry to cut methane emissions from new and modified sources 40-45% below 2012 levels by 2025.

Two of the nation's largest utility companies are advancing plans to build a pair of 1,600 MW natural gas-fired power plants in the southeast to take advantage of growing supplies that would also help them meet tighter emissions standards and replace inefficient coal-fired plants.

California’s thermal electric generation plants, most of them natural gas-fired, have become more efficient and drought-resilient, according to the chairman of the California Energy Commission (CEC), which introduced a new mapping technology Monday for tracking water-energy usage statewide.

The shift in the use of natural gas in Pennsylvania from residential and industrial consumption to electric power generation has been dramatic, with the trend accelerating around 2008 when Marcellus Shale production began to ramp up, according to a report from the state Public Utility Commission.

A group of institutional investors worth a combined $1.5 trillion has thrown its support behind an Obama administration plan for the oil and natural gas industry to cut methane emissions from new and modified sources 40-45% below 2012 levels by 2025.

Two of the nation’s largest utility companies are advancing plans to build a pair of 1,600 MW natural gas-fired power plants in the southeast to take advantage of growing supplies that would also help them meet tighter emissions standards and replace inefficient coal-fired plants.

An investor rights law firm has filed a class action lawsuit to block the $912 million sale of North American natural gas storage operator Niska Gas Storage Partners LLC to an affiliate of Brookfield Infrastructure.

A plan to make a realistically modest start on international exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from British Columbia (BC) took a step forward Monday when Painted Pony Petroleum Ltd., a Calgary-based BC shale gas developer, secured a path onto the lone pipeline currently available to the province’s northern Pacific ports.